I wanted to let you in on a secret you may not know. There is a free and open source drive/system encryption package for your operating system. Yes, the same kind of drive encryption that is being pushed out in corporate environments to protect “road warriors”. The point of the software being [...]
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http://www.usatoday.com/money/industries/telecom/2007-07-09-wireless-telecom_N.htm?csp=34
There are a lot of rumors floating around as to who may win the spectrum talked about in the article from the link above. Google is being touted as the next Microsoft because of their interest in this wireless range. What is so important about the FCC auctioning off some wireless spectrum? [...]
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http://www.mozilla.com/en-US/ffflicks/ThisIsHot-s.mov
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My main desktop, out of the 8 computers currently sitting in my office, runs Fedora Core 7 Linux. I have multiple machines running Linux and one Mac. While working with my Linux machines the goal of creating a DVD has come up before. So, like many other, I have found myself scouring [...]
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I am running Ubuntu Feisty as my main Desktop (single boot). The other day my wife got a cd that she wanted ripped into our music folder as an mp3. I had not ripped a cd on Linux before. I knew there had to be some software preloaded on Ubuntu to do [...]
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This is an open letter to Macromedia requesting that you please develop a 64bit version of flash. You developed a product that now is a part of many websites across the Internet. You push your product hard and then when the operating systems go to 64bit, you leave us high and dry. [...]
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I have spent the past month trying to get a machine (computer) built to serve as a honeypot. What is a honeypot, you ask? Well, for my less-than-geeky friends, it is a sneaky little trickster. It sits on my home network and pretends to be a webserver, ftp server, or whatever I [...]
Filed under: Internet, Open Source, Security by Philip Williams
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